Judson Sykes Bury

Judson Sykes Bury
Born	(1852-05-13)May 13, 1852 Salford
Died	June 10, 1944(1944-06-10) (aged 92) Chinley, Derbyshire
Nationality	United Kingdom
Occupation(s)	Physician, surgeon, and neurologist
Known for	Clinical Medicine: A Manual for the Use of Students and General Practitioners (1894)

Judson Sykes Bury FRCP (1852–1944) was a British physician, surgeon, and neurologist.

Biography

After education at Amersham Hall and then two years at Owens College, Manchester, Judson Bury entered University College London and studied medicine at University College Hospital, London. In 1877 he qualified MRCS and graduated MB (Lond.). After holding house appointments at University College Hospital, he graduated MD (Lond.) in 1879. He returned to Manchester and, after one year as a senior resident medical officer at the Manchester Children’s Hospital, Pendlebury, engaged in general practice. At the Manchester Royal Infirmary he became in 1885 a registrar, in 1889 an assistant physician, and in 1899 a full physician. In 1911 he became a professor of clinical at the University of Manchester. He retired from his Manchester appointments in 1912 but during WWI became a major in the RAMC and served on medical boards in Manchester and Warrington.

In 1893 Bury published A Treatise on Peripheral Neuritis, in large part consisting of observations by James Ross (1837–1892). Ross had intended to publish the observations in a monograph.

On Ross's death at the age of 55 it was left to Bury to carry out the intention as fully as he could. The first half of the book was written from views expressed by word of mouth to him by Ross; but the rest was his own except for the section on diabetic neuritis written by R. D. Williamson.

Bury was elected FRCP in 1894.

Judson Bury also published in 1894 Clinical Medicine, a manual for the use of students and junior practitioners; it met with a good response and a third edition appeared in 1912, written jointly with Albert Ramsbottom, his junior colleague at the Manchester Royal Infirmary.

Bury's article Multiple Symmetrical Peripheral Neuritis, contributed to the first edition of Clifford Allbutt's A System of Medicine, contained a section on an epidemic of neuritis in Manchester caused by arsenical impurity in beer. He gave the Bradshaw Lecture in 1901. He published Diseases of the Nervous System in 1912.

He was a fine runner in his youth and a keen golfer up to his death at the age of ninety-two. He was married and had one daughter.

Selected publications

Articles

• with Sydney Ringer: "The Influence of Salicine on the Healthy Body with special reference to its Influence on the Temperature". J Anat Physiol. 11(Pt 4): 588.3–604. July 1877. PMC 1309722.
• "A Case of Osteomalacia in a Child". Br Med J. 1 (1205): 213–214. 2 February 1884. PMC 2306779.
• "Paralysis of the Diaphragm". Br Med J. 1 (1641): 1275. 11 June 1892. PMC 2420422.
• "Peripheral neuritis from tobacco". The Lancet. 148 (3801): 23. 4 July 1896.
• "An Address on the Diagnosis of Functional from Organic Disease of the Nervous System". Br Med J. 2 (1856): 189–192. 25 July 1896. PMC 2510069.
• "Nervous Affections of the Hand, and Other Clinical Studies". Edinb Med J. 2 (3): 279–280. September 1897. PMC 5252096.
• "Aphasia and the Cerebral Speech Mechanism". Edinb Med J. 2 (5): 489–490. November 1897. PMC 5251973.
• "Remarks on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Arsenical Neuritis". Br Med J. 2 (2084): 1629–1631. 8 December 1900. PMC 2464088.
• "Two cases of paralysis agitans in the same family, in which improvement followed the administration of hyoscine". The Lancet. 159 (4103): 1097–1098. 19 April 1902.
• "A case of complete and temporary paralysis of the limbs in a child, probably a case of recovery from the initial stage of acute anterior poliomyelitis". Br Med J. 1 (2160): 1258–1259. 24 May 1902. PMC 2512148.
• "An Address on Trauma in Relation to Disease of the Nervous System: Presidential Address to the Manchester Medical Society". Br Med J. 1 (2261): 997–1000. 30 April 1904. PMC 2353868.
• "Note on alcohol in relation to multiple neuritis". Br Med J. 2 (2545): 1025–1026. 9 October 1909. PMC 2321254.
• with J. F. Ward: "A case of postural albuminuria in a boy the subject of chorea". The Lancet. 175 (4505): 19–20. 1 January 1910.
• "On a case of spasmodic syringomyelia". Br Med J. 1 (2559): 132–134. 15 January 1910. PMC 2330781.
• "Note on the distant effects of rifle bullets; with special reference to the spinal cord". Br Med J. 2 (2902): 212. 12 August 1916. PMC 2348772.
• "Swimming in the treatment of paralysis". Br Med J. 1 (3047): 655. 24 May 1919. PMC 2341265.
• "Symptoms resembling tabes dorsals arising after antityphoid inoculation". The Lancet. 196 (5069): 844–845. 23 October 1920.
• "Gunshot injury to the brain involving both cortical and subcortical tissue". Br Med J. 1 (3146): 556–557. 16 April 1921. PMC 2414900.
• "Catheter life". Br Med J. 2 (3678): 33–34. 4 July 1931. PMC 2314116.
• "War Neuroses". Br Med J. 1 (4291): 426. 3 April 1943. PMC 2282508. (Correction in: Br Med J. 1943 Apr 10; 1(4292): 466)

Books

• with James Ross: On Peripheral Neuritis. London: Charles Griffin & Co. 1893.
• Clinical medicine: A manual for the use of students and junior practitioners. Charles Griffin & Co. 1894.
• Diseases of the nervous system. 1912.

External links

• Works by or about Judson Sykes Bury at Wikisource